You've got your backup software installed on all your sites, both in your country, and remotely elsewhere. You get frequent notification of backup statuses, and it's going well. Until you hit a critical problem like your server crashing catastrophica...
Symantec has added lot of features in Netbackup 6.5.3, which is really a boon for protecting Critical Application. I would like to rank top 5 features as per my experience: 5. Granular Restoration possible from Microsoft Exchange Backup This is real...
I work on an outsource team on a very big client, who for a number of years had used ARCserve as their backup solution.A project was started just before I moved across from another outsource client to see whether or not ARCserve needed to be replaced...
Backups know no bounds. Servers with data to backup are often located behind firewalls, requiring Backup Exec to cross that barrier. Windows XP's internal firewall adds to the complexity, with settings of its own. The default out-of-the-box settings ...
I thought I would share this with the forum, as I have seen some posts around this. I've had to restore individual mailboxes and emails for users since the move from ARCserve 11.5 to Backup Exec 11D (and we are moving onto 12.5). Initially under the ...
The following guide is intended to provide you with procedures for backing up your DFS and DFSR File Servers: - Which DFS File Server To Backup? - You'll want to compare your file servers that participate in DFS or DFSR and select the one that h...
Related to a situation when we hav multi-slot autoloader,,, backups running every night ranging from daily to monthly .cherry on the top customer has himself set up media label,, external barcode which r bit difficult to understand like[instead of si...
One of the most frustrating and common problems with backups is troubleshooting poor performance. A simple concept like backing up a file, unfortunately, touches almost all aspects of your network and server infrastructure - everything from the sourc...
NOM has some great Alerts built into it. Just a little setup and you are ready to go. Then you learn a few things. When setting up the alerts you learn that some items can cover all the masters. Like ‘Frozen media'. I don’t care which server has a f...
If the NAS is on another machine in the network, you must use a UNC (uniform naming convention) path in the following format to connect to it: "\\computer_name\folder_name_in_drive\" You do not specify the drive name in the UNC path; instead, you me...
Problem/Symptoms The storage locations are filling up with blob files. None of the space is ever being reclaimed. - or - Blobs are not shrinking after computer accounts are being marked for deletion Environment NS 6.0.6074 SP3 RS 6.2.2106 RS 6.2...
I was working with a customer where he was just worried about his flashbackup Backup performance. Here is a quick tip to increase read and write buffer. How to adjust the FlashBackup read buffer for clients Create the following touch file on each cli...
Yesterday evening, I was just going through one of the customer problem. He was having a problem with Flashbackup backup job that was stalled. Most of the time, It was stalled during the time when NBU was mapping information of the file system or Jus...
I have recently been tasked with the establishment of an IT Disaster Recovery plan for my company, part of which was the best way of protecting our Small Business Server 2003 installation. Whilst I have been using Backup Exec in its various guises...
Education for the Entire Organization Symantec Education Services is here to help you with the most complete portfolio of technical training, security awareness education, and custom learning services, all designed to help you manage IT risk and ope...
Story of Low Disk Space: You have bought a new setup which is having 1 master and 100 more clients. All VERITAS and tape library configurations were done. With a big gulp of air you are initiating full backup for all clients and a green dressed runni...
- The Scenario - You back up your Exchange 2007 mailbox stores with Backup Exec 12 and the Microsoft Exchange Server Agent regularly. You've never actually tried to restore the mailbox store. The good news...This is not an uncommon scenario, but re...
In this guide I will offer a couple of configuration suggestions when using Backup Exec 12 along with Multi-Slot Robotic Tape Libraries - Partitioning your Robotic Tape Library - Configuring backup jobs to run on a multi-slot library can be confus...
Recently, a large provider of health insurance almost gave up on NetBackup as its disaster recovery solution-of-choice. But the vigilant support of Symantec technical specialists and engineers helped restore the company’s confidence in NetBackup disa...
Data growth rates of 30% to 50% per year are straining the network and storage capacities of organizations, a phenomenon that is compounded by the large amount of duplicate backup data routinely stored. This exacerbates the time and effort required t...
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